South Carolina General Assembly
105th Session, 1983-1984

Bill 3569

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               3569
Ratification Number:       392
Act Number:                584
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   To reconstitute the District Board of Education of 
                           the Chesterfield County School District and to 
                           repeal Section 1 of Act 162 of 1945 relating to 
                           the Chesterfield District Board of Education
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(A584, R392, H3569)

AN ACT TO RECONSTITUTE THE DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT INTO A NINE MEMBER BOARD WITH SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS AND TWO MEMBERS ELECTED AT LARGE, WITH TWO-YEAR TERMS, AND ELECTED AT A NON-PARTISAN ELECTION HELD AT THE TIME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION, TO DELAY FOR TWO YEARS THE FIRST ELECTION OF THE TWO AT-LARGE MEMBERS, TO CONTINUE IN OFFICE UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THEIR TERMS CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE AFTER 1984, AND TO REPEAL SECTION 1 OF ACT 162 OF 1945 (SECTION 21-1851 OF THE 1962 CODE) RELATING TO THE CHESTERFIELD DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

School board reconstituted

SECTION 1. The district board of education of the Chesterfield County School District shall consist of nine members, one elected from each of the seven single-member election districts established by Act 528 of 1982 for county council election districts and two elected from the school district at large. Members shall serve for terms of two years beginning on the first day of January following their election and until their successors are elected and qualify. Any vacancy must be filled by the county legislative delegation for the unexpired portion of the term.

Commencing with the elections for members who take office January 1, 1985, members must be elected in a nonpartisan election held at the same time as the general election. Single-member district members of the board must be residents of their respective election districts and elected by the qualified electors of the election district. At-large members must be residents of the school district and elected by the qualified electors of the school district at large. All persons desiring to qualify as a candidate and be elected to the board shall file written notice of candidacy with the county election commission at least sixty days before the election but not earlier than ninety days prior to the election. This notice of candidacy must be a sworn statement and shall include, in the case of candidates seeking election from a single-member district, the candidate's name, age, address, voting precinct, period of residence in the election district, and other information as the county election commission shall require, and in the case of a candidate for an at-large seat, the candidate's name, age, address, and period of residence in the school district.

The county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the election laws of this State mutatis mutandi. The commissioners shall prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out such elections, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results thereof. The commissioners shall advertise the date of the election ninety days preceding the election in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and shall publish a second notice thirty days before the election. The costs of the election must be borne by the district.

The results of the election must be determined in accordance with the nonpartisan election and runoff method prescribed for municipalities mutatis mutandi by Section 2 of Act 81 of 1977 and designated as Section 5-15-62 of the 1976 Code in the 1983 Cumulative Supplement.

Terms

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1 of this act relating to the number of members of the reconstituted board of education of the Chesterfield County School District, the two at-large members of the board as provided in Section 1 of this act must first be elected at the time of the general election in 1986. The terms of the board members serving on the effective date of this act, except for those whose terms expire after 1984, shall expire when the single-member district board members elected as provided in Section 1 of this act first take office. Board members serving on the effective date of this act whose terms expire after 1984 shall continue to serve until the expiration of their terms after which the membership of the board shall revert to nine members. Nothing in this act prohibits any board member from seeking election to the reconstituted board.

Repeal

SECTION 3. Section 1 of Act 162 of 1945 (codified as Section 21-1851 of the 1962 Code) is repealed.

Time effective

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.